Ébola

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Ébola is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeβ̞ola]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,519 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Ebolavirus) Virus causante de una enfermedad infecciosa, caracterizada por fiebre hemorrágica, que es altamente contagiosa y muy severa, afectatando a todo tipo de primates, incluidos los seres hu...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ébola, with forms such as "béola", "ébbola", and "ébloa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ela", "ella", "época", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Ébola, spelled É-B-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.